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I asked myself the same question for a while. Built “tasteful” personal rigs. Then as a bit of a joke when I was helping some friends build their PC for the fi

I asked myself the same question for a while. Built “tasteful” personal rigs. Then as a bit of a joke when I was helping some friends build their PC for the first time, we decided to be egregious with RGBs just for the hell of it. And you know what? It was fun to not be so serious. And I think that’s part of it, why not have a PC built for games have some personality in the form of pulsating water coolers, light bars, video cards with self-illumination? If you get sick of any of it it’s trivial to disable them in software of hardware (e.g. take them out). I should also mention I’m not an edgy 13 year old, I’m a 40 year old dad.

MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
> why not have a PC built for games have some personality in the form of pulsating water coolers, light bars, video cards with self-illumination? Because this is the opposite of personality. Its dressing things up in pre-fabbed cookie-cutter accessories with a uniform aesthetic of cheaply made electronics. Its just an easy way to sell generic products at a markup. Personality is personal, something that you came up with, not something that you bought of the shelf - that just makes you a consumer. Examples of PCs with personality: * https://www.pinterest.de/pin/527765650070789504/ https://www.pinterest.de/pin/527765650070789504/ * https://www.pinterest.de/pin/170714642095089041/ https://www.pinterest.de/pin/170714642095089041/ * https://www.pinterest.de/pin/278941770641263283/ https://www.pinterest.de/pin/278941770641263283/
- Pfhreak 6y ago
  People enjoy the things they enjoy. Busting out the "No true Scotsman" to put down the tastes of others as having the 'opposite of personality' is needlessly negative and gatekeep-ey. The bar for personality is not 'Spend thousands of dollars on bespoke computer cases'.
  - MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
    This is not "tasteful / expensive" vs "cheap / tacky". This is about paint-by-numbers vs painting free-form, from your own imagination, or playing Guitar Hero vs actually learning to play the guitar, and maybe writing a song. It doesn't matter if the result meets other people's standards, it just matters that the template wasn't already carved out by someone else. I picked my examples because I like them, just substitute them for something cheaper / less impressive, but self-made, if that is what you're getting hung up about.
    - hesdeadjim 6y ago
      You’re a fool if you think any form of “unique” creative expression isn’t just a variation on something that has come before. Let’s say you go and write an original guitar song. Your musical tastes have programmed you to copy what you have enjoyed in the past. Does that devalue your accomplishment, not in the slightest! Similarly, someone gets into blinging out their computer by copying what others have done, perhaps they find their unique voice doing so, maybe not. Maybe, like learning one of your favorite songs on an instrument, it’s just fucking fun and that is good enough.
- komali2 6y ago
  Nah those are ugly. I like the RBG ones better. Do you deny that that preference is an aspect of my personality?
  - hesdeadjim 6y ago
    Dear god I couldn't agree more. Those cases scream "I listen to vinyl" more than anything I've seen. It's a tad ironic that those most obsessed with being original tend to be the most obsessed with other peoples' opinion of them.

MrBuddyCasino 6y ago

> why not have a PC built for games have some personality in the form of pulsating water coolers, light bars, video cards with self-illumination? Because this is the opposite of personality. Its dressing things up in pre-fabbed cookie-cutter accessories with a uniform aesthetic of cheaply made electronics. Its just an easy way to sell generic products at a markup. Personality is personal, something that you came up with, not something that you bought of the shelf - that just makes you a consumer. Examples of PCs with personality: * https://www.pinterest.de/pin/527765650070789504/ https://www.pinterest.de/pin/527765650070789504/ * https://www.pinterest.de/pin/170714642095089041/ https://www.pinterest.de/pin/170714642095089041/ * https://www.pinterest.de/pin/278941770641263283/ https://www.pinterest.de/pin/278941770641263283/

Pfhreak 6y ago
People enjoy the things they enjoy. Busting out the "No true Scotsman" to put down the tastes of others as having the 'opposite of personality' is needlessly negative and gatekeep-ey. The bar for personality is not 'Spend thousands of dollars on bespoke computer cases'.
- MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
  This is not "tasteful / expensive" vs "cheap / tacky". This is about paint-by-numbers vs painting free-form, from your own imagination, or playing Guitar Hero vs actually learning to play the guitar, and maybe writing a song. It doesn't matter if the result meets other people's standards, it just matters that the template wasn't already carved out by someone else. I picked my examples because I like them, just substitute them for something cheaper / less impressive, but self-made, if that is what you're getting hung up about.
  - hesdeadjim 6y ago
    You’re a fool if you think any form of “unique” creative expression isn’t just a variation on something that has come before. Let’s say you go and write an original guitar song. Your musical tastes have programmed you to copy what you have enjoyed in the past. Does that devalue your accomplishment, not in the slightest! Similarly, someone gets into blinging out their computer by copying what others have done, perhaps they find their unique voice doing so, maybe not. Maybe, like learning one of your favorite songs on an instrument, it’s just fucking fun and that is good enough.
komali2 6y ago
Nah those are ugly. I like the RBG ones better. Do you deny that that preference is an aspect of my personality?
- hesdeadjim 6y ago
  Dear god I couldn't agree more. Those cases scream "I listen to vinyl" more than anything I've seen. It's a tad ironic that those most obsessed with being original tend to be the most obsessed with other peoples' opinion of them.